The Stockton Unified School District is making additions to how U.S. History is taught, with pioneering efforts to include ethnic studies as an alternative for students.
“Ethnic studies is US history, that’s the thing,” Destiny Rivas, Stockton Unified Native American Indian Center Coordinator, said. “It’s just told from a different lens. It’s being told from these different stories that you don’t often hear because there’s so much history to be heard. So, you have to kind of focus in. So when you go to a study and you’re learning just from one perspective, you’re understanding that it’s just from one perspective. So, then, you’re understanding that there’s so much more.”
Aldrich Sabac, Ethnic Studies curriculum specialist, says that as far as they know, they will be the first district in California to offer these alternatives to U.S. History with integrated courses, such as Native American, Black and African American, Mexican American, Asian American, and Filipino American studies…